In a statement on Tuesday, the Food Safety Authority said: "Further to [an earlier alert], the FSAI has just been informed of an additional retailer that sold implicated bars in Ireland.

"The above batch of Fulfil White Chocolate & Cookie Dough Vitamin & Protein Bars is being recalled by WH Smith due to the possible presence of small pieces of clear plastic. WH Smith is recalling the implicated bars and displaying a point-of-sale recall notice."

The affected bars have a batch code of L7318/J and a best before date of February 15, 2019.